Month: April 2012

(April 9, 2012) -- The Daily News reports that a two-year-old Houston girl who was found in a brackish pond near the beach at Dellanera RV Park in Galveston Sunday night has died.

(April 9, 2012) -- A 47-year-old East Texas woman died Sunday afternoon when her RV caught fire at the Westberry Landing and R.V. Park in Noonday, reports the Tyler Morning Telegraph.

(April 9, 2012) -- SanJuanIslander.com reports that Richard Durhack has submitted plans for a 75-site campground next to zip line business Zip San Juan on San Juan Island.

(April 9, 2012) -- WSBT-TV reports that the Michigan Department of Natural Resources has announced that it is lowering many fees at state forest campgrounds to align them more closely with fees at state parks and recreation areas.

(April 9, 2012) -- On April 4, customer Charles O’Donnell asked one of the dealership's service writers how many people worked at the company. After learning the dealership employed 50 people, he then asked the service writer to inform the staff that he was buying lunch for everyone, and ordered pizzas delivered for all 50 employees

(April 9, 2012) -- Winnebago Industries Inc. is recalling two model year 2008 Access motorhomes. Over time and with frequent use, the roll stop latches on the wheelchair lift's outer barrier may become bent or misaligned. A wheelchair occupant may defeat or ride over the insufficiently latched roll stop, and if this occurs when the lift platform is in an elevated position, the wheelchair's occupant could fall and sustain injury.

(April 9, 2012) -- Lawrence Journal World reports Lawrence, Kan. city commissioners on Tuesday will consider approving a new ordinance that will make it illegal for two long-term campers to set up make-shift living quarters in public parking spots in front of South Park.

(April 9, 2012) -- Hannah Sampson, an msnbc budget travel writer, hits the road to find homey, intimate hotels and B&Bs that reflect the particular character of their towns (and their owners), and comes up with a greatest-hits list of 10 unforgettable Florida-coast stays. Among them is the Low-Key Hideaway Motel and RV.

(April 9, 2012) -- In Canada, the owner of a Paradise recreational vehicle business where three trailers were torched told CBC News that he is thankful that the blazes were not worse.

(April 9, 2012) -- Seth Kugel, writing for the New York Times News Service, describes camper-vanning is a way of life, or at least a way of leisure, in New Zealand, a beautiful country that begs to be hiked and climbed and camped in.